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#27917
05/01/2001 10:25 AM
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journeyman
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journeyman
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The Marine excursion of the knights of Pythias is my favorite Stephen Leacock story. I was wondering if anyone else reads Leacock stories and which is your favorite?
-Scott
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#27918
05/01/2001 12:57 PM
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Joined: Mar 2000
Posts: 460
addict
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addict
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Two of my favourite Leacock stories are "My financial career" and "The awful fate of Melpomenus Jones". Both of them were made into animated films by the National Film Board of Canada in the 1960s.
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#27919
05/01/2001 2:04 PM
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Joined: May 2001
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stranger
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stranger
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My favorite line from the Marine Excursion goes something like this: "... and the bank teller with a face like a horse, and his friend with a face like another horse..."
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#27920
05/01/2001 7:24 PM
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Joined: Feb 2001
Posts: 387
enthusiast
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enthusiast
Joined: Feb 2001
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Wasn't it his brother? I liked all of the Sunshine sketches.
jimthedog
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#27921
05/01/2001 7:32 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Carpal Tunnel
Joined: Jan 2001
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Glad to see Stephen Leacock is still being read if this is the same Canadian humorist I remember reading so many years ago. He wrote an essay telling about he and his room-mate with their heads still under the covers because it was very cold, commiserating with each other because "they had not slept a wink all night!" Only to discover when they threw off the covers that the ceiling had fallen during the night, and neither had known it.
A couple weeks later, I woke up feeling the same way, and found that there had been a fire in the room below me, the firemen had chopped down doors and smashed windows, with sirens screaming, all without my knowing it.
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#27922
05/01/2001 10:48 PM
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Joined: May 2001
Posts: 4
stranger
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stranger
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I looked it up...
"The two tellers of the Exchange Bank are both there standing side by side. But one of them -- the one with a cameo pin and the long face like a horse -- is going, and the other -- with the other cameo pin and a face like another horse -- is not. In the same way, Hussell of the Newspacket is going, but his brother, beside him, isn't. Lillian Drone is going, but her sister can't; and so on all through the crowd."
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